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Ok, but wait. Why would there be no traffic? I know that near the middle/end of ep 2 she says how many millions died during the “transition”. And we have seen sparse roads like when she’s driving the scooter to the airport to fly the plane. But what keeps nagging at me is that stuff still needs to happen. People still need to go to the power plant to make power to allow the chef to cook your food and power your mansion. Someone still needs to mine fossil fuels for you to put in your bikes. Someone still needs to plow the roads in the snow and patch the potholes and make the vehicles that do those things and the clothes you wear and… even if it’s a hive mind, and happy people, someone still needs to keep the lights on the and the sewers working and all that creates traffic. Even if everyone knows how to do everything, there is still transit and shipping. I dunno. I like the idyllic Italian coast setup, don’t get me wrong, but I have been tossing around the rest of that for a while also.
When no-one needs to drive to and from bullshit bums-at-seat jobs, when there's effectively no service sector, when no-one drives to see friends or go to school or visit family or whatever, you'd be surprised how much less there would be on the road.
People in necessary roles to keep the lights on would likely just live their entire life at the workplace.
If they are highly efficient and basically do things mechanically without much care for any individual person ... then they probably have key people permanently stationed at the water plant to keep the water running, operators at the sewer plant to keep the sewers working, farmers and harvesters at the farms to keep the food growing, technicians at their stations to keep the phones running, the networks working, etc.
Yes there would still be transport but the majority of major transportation of bulk items would probably go on train systems and some large trucks. The way transports work now is mostly on trucks to deliver things directly to individual people and companies. If you have a collective system, everything would mass transported in bulk to central major locations to be distributed by smaller vehicles on shorter runs.
There would also be far fewer vehicles on the road because they would probably ride share as efficiently as possible and pack as many people in each car or bus to move people around. The way we drive now as is highly inefficient ... every car and truck on the road today basically only has one person going about their day for mostly personal use. In the Pluribus hive mind, every individual has a task for the collective and each task is coordinated with every other person. If 100 people have to travel outside the city .... they'd get one bus to move those 100 people instead of getting 100 cars for each of them.
There would still be hundreds of people moving around but their coordinated system would efficient to the point where far fewer vehicles would be on the road.
On top of that .... if they knew I was going to be on the road on my bike ... they'd coordinate their activities and movements to clear the road for me to avoid disturbing me.
Most people with white collar jobs were stuck at home during Covid (at least where I live in France), and the roads were empty. I expect the same could happen with Pluribus, and maybe more with their optimization.